Wednesday, March 22, 2006

I think someone should volunteer to set up "Planet Haskell" or
"Functional Planet" (which would include other languages) ala Planet Debian, Planet Gnome, Planet Lisp (which is made with
secret alien technology), Planet
Perl, etc.
These sites are "Blog aggregators". Basically they just collect the
RSS feeds of the community and post their blogs to a web page in a
cute format (the gnome one is especially cute, but you probably could
have guessed that).
There are already sites like The Haskell Sequence and Lambda the Ultimate which
have a similar purpose, though not quite the same.
There's already software out there for this, so nothing new needs to
be written. I think we need a volunteer to set this up somewhere?
Preferably someone with their own server, and we'll worry about
setting up the DNS later :)

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Anna and I tried to go out to "French's Dome" a rock climbing crag
near Mt. Hood. Although the town it is near, ZigZag, was plenty warm
and had no snow, I didn't realize that 6.2 miles away was 6.2 miles
that went up hill, and so by the time we got to the crag the road was
impassable due to the snow.
We turned around and went to Salmon River Slab instead, which is
very nearby. It was lower elevation and warm enough to climb. It was
really nice, but it was a bit wet. There was a 9+ that I climbed
which I felt was more like a 10+. It was a nice challenge, as I had
to find a different route to avoid the wet.
It's Jenn's birthday tomorrow, so we're going to go to dinner with
her & Carlos. Hurray!
pax.

Other Software: I'm primary author or maintainer on several software packages: The Haskell Cabal, a Haskell filesystem called Halfs. I also contributed some of the original code for Debian's apt-get cryptographic signature checking.

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